Average March Temperatures for North Carolina

Average temperatures for March at cities, communities and other locations around North Carolina are listed below in degrees Fahrenheit and Celsius.

You can jump to a separate table for each region of the state: North Carolina Mountains in the west, Piedmont in the center, and North Carolina Coast to the east.

The tables give the normals for maximum and minimum temperatures based on weather data collected from 1991 to 2020 by the US National Centers for Environmental Information.

North Carolina Mountains

Average March temperatures
High °F	Low °F	Place	High °C	Low °C
59	38	Asheville	15	3
50	30	Banner Elk	10	-1
50	30	Blowing Rock	10	-1
52	29	Boone	11	-2
61	34	Cullowhee	16	1
46	29	Grandfather Mountain	8	-1
54	32	Highlands	12	0
61	36	Kerr Scott Reservoir	16	2
61	37	Morganton	16	3
60	36	North Wilkesboro	16	2
60	34	Pisgah Forest	15	1
60	37	Tapoco	16	3
61	38	Waterville	16	3
61	40	Winston-Salem	16	5

Piedmont

Average daily temperatures in March
High °F	Low °F	Place	High °C	Low °C
63	40	Albemarle	17	5
64	39	Burlington	18	4
61	39	Cary	16	4
62	38	Chapel Hill	17	3
64	41	Charlotte	18	5
65	38	Concord	18	3
61	37	Durham	16	3
65	40	Gastonia	18	5
62	39	Greensboro	17	4
62	34	Henderson	17	1
61	40	Hickory	16	4
64	41	High Point	18	5
58	33	Mount Airy	15	0
63	40	Raleigh	17	5
64	36	Shelby	18	2

North Carolina Coast

March temperatures: daily averages
High °F	Low °F	Place	High °C	Low °C
61	46	Atlantic Beach	16	8
63	45	Beaufort	17	7
63	40	Belhaven	17	4
61	46	Cape Hatteras	16	8
69	45	Cedar Island	21	7
63	42	Edenton	17	5
63	41	Elizabeth City	17	5
65	40	Fayetteville	18	4
65	43	Goldsboro	18	6
64	41	Greenville	18	5
64	38	Hofmann Forest	18	3
66	40	Jacksonville	19	4
67	42	Kinston	19	6
65	41	Lumberton	19	5
59	43	Manteo	15	6
62	44	Morehead City	17	7
65	42	New Bern	18	5
59	46	Ocracoke	15	8
60	37	Roanoke Rapids	15	3
61	38	Rocky Mount	16	3
68	43	Southport	20	6
67	44	Wilmington	19	7
63	40	Wilson	17	5

Average Temperatures for North Carolina in March

North Carolina Mountains

Piedmont

North Carolina Coast

Reference

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